Deadline: 14-Jan-24
The Indigo Love of Reading Foundation is offering grants to ensure that every child in Canada has the opportunity to become richly literate and achieve their full potential through a lifelong love of reading.
Literacy Fund Grants are awarded to schools and in some cases educational organizations in high-needs communities who are committed to fostering a love of reading and have a robust plan for how they would utilize new books and resources to enhance their vision. Generally, they define “high-needs” as a community challenged by socio-economic factors however, they consider other intersectional factors as well.
Objectives
- The Literacy Fund Grant exists to enhance a number of impact areas to bolster a love of reading and enhance learning in schools. The six main categories of impact that they work to track include the following:
- Improve School Literacy Infrastructure and Inventory: increase access to a greater number of relevant literature and reading resources in an enhanced learning library environment.
- Increase Student Literacy Engagement: increase student engagement with literacy and reading to develop a life-long love of reading.
- Enhance Student Literacy Achievement: improve reading level outcomes in students and more readily meet curricular expectations through expanded access to books.
- Enhance Student and Educator Skills: increase student and educator skills within certain curricular areas such as: Indigenous Knowledge and Worldviews, issues relating to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I), Environmental literacy, STEM, etc. through access to books and educational resources.
- Enhance Community Engagement: increase involvement of parents, family and community members around literacy initiatives at your school.
- Enhance student school engagement: increase overall student engagement with their library/school over time through expanded access to literature.
Eligibility Criteria
- Generally, to be considered for the 2024 Indigo Love of Reading Literacy Fund grant, an eligible school or schools receive at least 80% of its funding from the provincial or federal government that serves students in at least one of the following grades: Junior Kindergarten, Senior Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, and Grade 8.
- If your school does not have students in those Grades or is not publicly funded, your school is not eligible for a grant.
- If your school does not serve any of the eligible Grades (e.g. Grades JK through 8), your school is not eligible to receive the literacy fund grant.
- They recognize the importance of the work that daycares dedicated to literacy do to support children across the country. At this time daycare are not eligible for the Literacy Fund Grant opportunity as the program is currently scaled for schools serving grades K-8.
- Non-profit organizations that support schools in eligible grades (Junior Kindergarten to Grade Eight) are now eligible to apply for the Literacy Fund Grant opportunity on behalf of their partner schools.
- Organizations have the option to apply for up to a maximum of 10 high-needs or priority schools in their network/district. Any schools within this cohort, also have the option of submitting an individual school application on their own behalf.
- Preference will be given to schools with excellent applications applying to receive the Literacy Fund Grant for the first time.
For more information, visit Indigo Love of Reading Foundation.